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A18242	Cato in English verse With a three-fold table directing to varietie. 1. Of lessons for all sorts of persons. 2. Of copies for writing-schollers. 3. Of poesies for the house and schoole. The second edition. With addition of proper titles or heads (answering the first table) to euery distich for the more profitable vse of this worke, especially in the English schooles. By Iohn Penkethman louer of learning.; Catonis disticha. English.	Cato, Marcus Porcius, 234-149 B.C., attributed name.; Penkethman, John.	1624 (1624)	STC 4862; ESTC S120780	15,343	44

not with thy friend nor anger mooue Ire breedeth hatred Concord feedeth loue 37 Masters When seruants faults prouoke thee to displeasure Temper thy selfe to punish them with measure 31 Conquerors Strong men Superiours Whom thy force can somtimes by suffrance quell Patience all vertues alwayes doth excell 39 Prodigals Keepe wel thy labours fruits wants greater grow When to repaire our losse paines we bestow 40 Prodigals Housholders Rich men When being rich thou mak'st thy friends good cheere Bee alwaies to thy selfe a friend most neere The Second Booke The Preface If thou wouldst learne the tilling of the ground Reade Virgils Georgicks where that skill is found But if Herbes vertues thou car'st more to knowe Macer the Poet those in Verse will showe The Roman ciuill warres to vnderstand If thou desire take Lucan in thy hand Or if thou wouldst performe the Louers part Repaire to Ouid that doth teach the Art But to liue wisely if thy mind be set To me giue eare this discipline to get By what things man doth liue from vice remote Come and what Wisedome is by Reading note 1 Vncharitable men HElp if thou canst euen strangers for to gaine Friends by deserts is better then to raigne 2 Astronomers or searchers of secrets Gods secrets or what Heau'n is leaue t' enquire Sith thou art mortall mortall things desire 3 Fearers of Death The feare of Death which is meere folly flie Life's ioyes thou losest if thou feare to die 4 Angrymen Disputers Striue not for ought vnsure with angry mind Toward the truth wrath makes ouriudgmēt blind 5 Friends Spend quickly when the cause it selfe desires And somewhat giue when time or cause requires 6 Ambitious men Prodigall men Make merry with a little shun excesse More safe the Ship is where the waues be lesse 7 Blabbers offenders Keep wisely frō thy Mates what may thee shame Lest what offends thee onely more doe blame 8 Offenders Their euill workes thinke not the wicked gaine Sinnes for a time kept hid time doth explaine 9 Little or weake men Souldiers Doe not a little bodies power despise Whom Nature hath made weak he may be wise 10 Clients Vanquished men Inferiors Souldiers Giue place a while vnto thy stronger foes The Vanquisht oft his Victors ouerthrowes 11 Company-keepers Friends Quarrellers Braule not with him whō thou dost louing know From the least words great strife doth oftē grow 12 Fortune-tellers Searchers of secrets Sorcerers What God intends search not in sorcerous wise Who touching thee without thee doth aduise 13 Proud men Enuy through too much brauery come not neare Which though not hurtfull 't is a griefe to beare 14 Clients Oppressed men Be of good comfort though condemned wrong Nought by Iniustice gotten prospers long 15 Remembrers of strife Of brabbling conflicts to vse repetition After atonement shewes a bad condition 16 Company-keepers Selfe-praisers and dispraisers From self-praise and dispraise thou must abstaine For Fooles doe that prouok'd by Glory vaine 17 Gamesters Prodigals Thy gaines vse sparing for excessiue spending Goods long in gathering brings to speedy ending 18 Company-keepers When time or cause requires it play the Foole For folly then to feigne is wisedomes rule 19 Couetous men Shun Luxury and Auarice for those As each the other thy good name oppose 20 Babblers Talkers Beleeue not them that still are babbling much For little credit is allow'd to such 21 Drunkards In drinke-offending doe not that accuse The fault 's in thee that do'st Gods gift abuse 22 Friends Sicke men Commit thy minde to a Companion sure To a Physician good thy bodies cure ●3 Poore men Repiners at others good At vndeseruers weale grieue not at all The bad be cocker'd for their greater fall 24 Carelesse men Arme thee to beare each casuall distresse For what thou hast foreseene doth hurt thee lesse 25 Poore men Be not dismaid though crost but hope retaine For with all men Hope doth in death remaine 26 Carelesse men Let not that slip which thou shalt fitting finde Time hath much haire before but none behinde 27 Carelesse men Weighing things past for what 's to come prouide Follow that God which lookes on either side 28 Drunkards Gluttons Fare sometimes to grow stronger with lesse measure Many to health few things are due to pleasure 29 Company-keepers Selfe-conceited men The peoples iudgement scorne not thou alone Lest while thou scornest many thou please none 30 Drunkards Gluttons Chiefly regard thy health which is the chiefe Blame not the times that wrought'st thy proper griefe 31 Dreamers * See the note at the end of the booke vnder C. Regard not dreames for what we wish awake That thing in sleeping doth our sences take The third Booke The Preface Thou Reader that hereto thy minde dost giue Shalt heere learne precepts teaching well to liue Be stor'd with Lessons learne while thou hast breath Life without Learning doth resemble death Much good thou reapest if thou this respect Jf not thy selfe not me thou dost neglect 1 Well-liuers LIuing vpright the slanderers words despise All tongues to rule in vs no power lyes 2 Witnesses Friends Brought for a witnes thy friends fault conceale In what thou canst yet with thy honours weale 3 Simple men Of smooth and flattering speeches take thou heed For Truth is plaine but lyes doe cunning need 4 Sluggards Flie dulnesse sloth of life for when the minde Growes weake through idlenes the flesh is pinde 5 Labouring men Mirth sometimes mingle with thy care and paine That any labour thou maist well sustaine 6 Carpers Carpe neuer at anothers word or deed Lest the like measure doe from him proceed 7 Heires Prodigals Lest all speake ill of thee keepe and increase Those goods that fall to thee by Friends decease 8 Couetous men Old men If thou be rich in age before life ends Be liberall and no niggard to thy Friends 9 Masters Scorners To no mans Counsell profiting be nice Much lesse despise thy seruants good aduice 10 Husbands Poore men If treasure as thou didst thou canst not hoord Contented liue with what the times affoord 11 Bachelors * See the note at the end of the Booke vnder D. For goods beware thou marry not a wife Nor keepe her if she leade a shrewish life 12 Politicians By patterne learne to flie or to pursue The liues of others teach vs what to doe 13 Attempters Try nought aboue thy strength lest ouer-swaid Perforce thou leaue thy worke in vaine assaid 14 Concealers Conceale not what thou know'st vniustly done Lest thou seeme willing the same course to runne 15 Clients Oppressed men Vnder Lawes rigour craue the Iudges aide For Lawes themselues with right would be allaid 16 Offenders Take thy deserued penance without grudge And being faulty be thy proper Iudge 17 Readers Schoole-boyes Reade much and dayly more the Poet sings Though not still credible miraculous things 18 Babblers Guests Talkers Vse few words at a feast lest thou be nam'd A prater while thou wouldst be ciuill fam'de 19 Husbands Thy

CATO IN ENGLISH VERSE With a three-fold Table directing to varietie 1. Of Lessons for all sorts of persons 2. Of Copies for Writing-Schollers 3. Of Poesies for the House and Schoole The Second Edition With Addition of proper Titles or Heads answering the first Table to euery Distich for the more profitable vse of this worke especially in the English Schooles By IOHN PENKETHMAN louer of Learning LONDON Printed for Richard Hawkins and are to be sold at his Shop in Chancery Lane 1624. Ad vniuersos in regno Britannico tam probitate quàm doctrina decoratos Ludimagistros Tetradecastichon Interpretis dedicatorium ARtis Grammaticae doctores atque Columnae O Calliopes Angligenumque decus Vobis ista dico non mores more Magistri Vt vos erudiam praecipiamue bonos Ad mare tali etenim latices deferre viderer Officio gravidis mella apibusque dare Sed modo deuoti monimentum pignus amoris Vt maneant vobis discipulisque mei Quos vero istorum potius protectio tangit Quam qui gymnasijs ipsa Latina docent Vos igitur gratumque ratumque tenete libellum Patroni proprij protegitote meum Sub quibus inuidiae quanquam circundatus armis Mercurij tanquam virga animatus eat Ad studiosos Discipulos Hexasticon SJ dictata probis praeceptis vestra vel aptis Themmata dogmatibus non decorare piget Si cordi est vobis comptos perdiscere mores Et bene viuendi noscere ritè viam Vt Cato praecepit Romanis carmina verbis Judice maternis quaerite nostra duce To all industrious Masters of the Pen. LOe you whose exquisite and honour'd skill A liberall Science worthy to be stilde Keeps in renoun'd esteeme the fether'd Quill By whom great matters from confusion wilde Are brought to order whose recording aide Supports the chiefest Calling Art or Trade Loe a sententious Treasure I prefer For needfull vse to your most actiue hands A treasure if true Wisedome do not err Worth more then manual knowledge goods or lands This then for Copies to your Schollers giue So may they learne at once to write and liue To all carefull and vertuously-disposed Parents and Housholders IF hauing Children you would wel instruct thē And vnto God through vertuous way conduct thē If you with prudent precepts do not scorne Your Hearts to fill and Houses to adorne Or if vnskil'd you couet to discerne What good your Sonnes from Latine Cato learne This Booke in price and in proportion small Yet great in Matter satisfies you all The Translators Preface to the Beneuolent Perusers THe Doctrine of Wisedome like running water ought to be common because by how much any one instructeth others by so much hee multiplieth and acquireth wisedome to himselfe according to that Qui alios docet seipsum instruit Hee that teacheth others learneth himselfe For knowledge is described to be an incomparable Treasure and a noble possession of the minde which beeing distributed by parts taketh increase and disdaining a couetous possessor without distribution quickly decayeth I therefore considering that the Morall Distichs intituled Cato beeing in the Latine tongue were learned and read only in Schooles by Children and desiring to spend my vacant houres in some commendable studie for the benefit of my Countrey to which end especially we are born conceiued it a work of worth to translate the same in our mother tongue both for the Instruction of such Parents and others as were ignorant of the Latine and for a generall vse for which they were intended as hereafter in this Preface I shall declare But first let me search into and expresse the foure-fold cause of this worke that concurreth to the ordering of euery thing to wit the Materiall Finall Efficient and Formall cause The Materiall cause or matter of this Booke which is the same are the foure Cardinall vertues Prudence Iustice Fortitude and Temperance which are called Cardinall by a Metaphor or Figure of Cardo a hinge because as a doore is turned on the hinges so all other vertues are reduced to these foure as formes to their kindes The first introduceth or bringeth in because a man through Wisedome is brought vnto Sciences and Vertues The Second directeth because a man is directed by Iustice to the kingdome of Heauen The Third ouercomes for a man is said through Fortitude to ouercome his spirituall enemies the world the Flesh and the Deuill The Fourth tempereth for it teacheth vs to liue soberly in this world and to abstaine from carnall desires All which vertues with their seuerall Daughters or Branches are copiously handled in this Booke The Finall cause is profit both priuate as to the Authours owne sonne and common as to vs for by perusing this booke like prudent Husbandmen wee may extirpe or roote out vices and sowe the seedes of vertues in our hearts whereby with Gods assistance we may auoid the calamities of this present life and that to come The efficient cause is the Authour of this Booke which is vnknowne or very doubtfull so as it may be called Apocryphus a word signifying greatly obscure For the famous Philosopher and Historiographer Plutarch setting fotth amongst others the liues of two vertuous and learned men bearing the name of Cato the one Marcus Portius Cato called also Censo●●aus of being Censor the other likewise M. P. Cato called also Vticensis of Vtica where he slue himselfe whom he further distinguisheth with the Additions of maior the elder and minor the yonger sheweth that Cato maior died before and Cato minor in the time of Julius Caesar and that notwithstanding the saying of Iuuenal Tertius è coelo cecidit Cato Cato maior had two Sonnes whereof the one had also a Sonne and that Sonne the like And the other had two Sonnes whereof the one was Father of Cato minor And that Cato minor had a Sonne the whole Progenie bearing the name of Cato who were all extinct before the time of Augustus the second Emperour of Rome But I obserue in the Preface to the second Booke of these Distichs that the Author aduiseth the Reader if he desire to knowe the Romane and ciuill warres which were those betweene Iulius Caesar and Pompey hee should search Lucan whereby it is euident that this booke was not before Lucan who writ his worke after the time of Julius Caesar and consequently none of the Catones could possibly be the Author therof And therefore some father it on Seneca who was Tutor to Nero the fift Roman Emperor others on golden-mouth'd Chrysostome And it was attributed to the Poet Ausonius by Baptista Pius whose opinion some haue lately followed whom Joseph Scaliger in his Ausonian Lectures sharpely reprooueth and plainely confuteth Whereupon may be said Indiscussa manet adhuc sub Judice lis est The strife no Iudge did yet decide But vndiscust it doth abide Yet some say it is thus intituled Incipit Ethica Catonis The Morall Science of Cato beginneth not because Cato composed it but to the end it

the second Table The third Table for the adorning of the House c. viz. the HAll or Dining-roome b 1. d 3 10 16 17 24 36 40 b 2. d 1 6 16 17 19 21 28 30 b 3. d 5 6 8 18 20. b 4. d 3 5 10. 24 28 30. Chamber b 1. d 1 2 19 21 22 23 28 29 30 33 37 39. b 2 d 2 3 8 12 13 14 21 22 25 27 30 31. b 3. d 4 5 10 12 21 22. b 4. d 5 ●0 13 17 22 30 32 34 35 39 44 46. Study or Counting-house b 1. d 8 11 13 18 24 25 28 37 39. b 2. d 7 8 17 18 22 23 24 25 26 27. b 3. d 5 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 15 16 17 21 25 26 31 32 33 35 36 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 47. Shop or Office b 1. d 17. b 3. d 4 14 16. b 4. d 3 7 17 19 21 29 35 36. To conclude for the Schoole b 1. d 2 28. b 2. Preface b 3. Preface d 4. 16 17 23. b 4. d 6 19 21 23 27 29 48. Thus endeth the third Table Such of the short Precepts as are meete to adorne the Roomes before mentioned and the Schoole selected and orderly composed in Meeter for the same purpose viz. For the Hall or Dining-roome AT Banket s little speake Feasts seldome make Be cleanly and thy drinke with measure take For the Chamber To God pray humbly sleepe for Natures due Loue thy wife truely and a whore eschue ●o●ke to thy charge and well thy children breed Liue chastly and to thy affaires take heed For the Study or Counting-house Come not to priuate talke without requiring Saue well thy goods not other mens desiring The law thou mad'st to suffer be not loth And haue a care to keepe thy lawfull oth Lend vpon Credit but to whom aduise Nor of beliefe be light in any wise For the Shop or Office Thy Master feare mocke none to Nature sleepe What 's to thy charge committed safely keepe Be diligent shun Harlots conuersation Flie doubtfull games vse harmelesse recreation For the Schoole Thy Master feare sleepe Nature to suffice Mocke none nor meaner then thy selfe despise Thy Parents fauour let thy patience gaine Lie not reade bookes and beare them in thy braine To vertuous discipline thy minde apply Play with the Top and games of hazzard fly Necessary Notes wherewith I though● not to trouble the Margents which are to be passed ouer vntill some of the Precepts in this Booke doe thereunto seuerally direct you as I haue mentioned in my Preface A Which counsell is good but not good enough for we must doe good for Gods sake not onely to good people and such as be thankefull or worthy or our friends but also to the wicked vnthankfull and to our enemies to the end that we may be the Children and Imitators of our heauenly Father who causeth his Sunne to shine afwell vpon the euill as the good and giueth his raine both to the iust and vniust B But Christian charity commands that we should not render euill for euill but contrariwise good for euill and that we should loue all men truly and from our hearts C This is meant by ordinary dreames not such visions whereof the Scripture in diuers places 〈…〉 ion for those in respect they are of 〈…〉 we ought both to regard and beleeue D Nay rather you must keepe her till death if you once marry her though she proue neuer so shrewish or troublesome For by Christs Law a man may not leaue his wife for any cause except adultery E This is well sayd but not well enough For we ought not to striue peruersly with any man thogh vniust nay if we will hearken to Christ we must contend in no wise neither iustly nor vniustly F Yet God is not pacified with Incense but according to the custome in the Old Testament the Church kept this Institution which must be referred to another signification For you may not thinke Almighty God commandeth that Frankincense should be brought to him from Arabia but this Frankincense which God requireth vs to offer vnto him and from which he taketh the sauour of sweetnesse to wit prayers proceeding from a true faith and a pure heart wherewith God is properly delighted and appeased The last end